[Pkg-xen-devel] Xen 4.4 packaging.

[Dave Scott]

Hi,

On 23 Jun 2014, at 09:53, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:

> On 04/19/2014 03:15 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 14:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>> Hi waldi,
>>> 
>>> Are you planning to update the Xen package too 4.4 soon? Upstream have
>>> released 4.4-rc6 and AIUI are planning to release the final version next
>>> week (I've been out of the office for a bit, so I don't know the precise
>>> state, but that was the last I heard).
>>> 
>>> I would like to send patches to enable the build on ARM but this relies
>>> on 4.4. I'm happy to do the upgrade first and send you patches if you
>>> would prefer.
>> 
>> In the meantime 4.4.0 has been released and it seems like Stefan has
>> done most of the hard work to update the packaging in Ubuntu. I'd like
>> to get this into Jessie sooner rather than later. Do you object to me
>> working on this at some point?
>> 
>> Ian.
> 
> Ian,
> 
> Without any answer from Waldi (which, by the way, is often the case with
> him, unfortunately), I think it's perfectly reasonable to just do the
> work. More than 3 months without a reply is not reasonable.
> 
> Also, we are now 3 months from the Jessie freeze, so it'd be really bad
> to just wait another 3 months for an answer by the current maintainer
> (eg: Waldi), and then wake up with no recent Xen in Jessie.
> 
> As one of the core upstream author, I trust you can do some good work.
> So you have all of my support.
> 
> BTW, do you have any update concerning XenServer Core for Debian? Bob
> Ball told me it would get done "soon", but that "soon" is already quite
> late, considering the freeze that is approaching.

I’m not sure if Bob is on this list. The xapi project is hoping to make a “2.0” release in about 3 months (september IIRC), which should have all the portability problems fixed and should be easier to package and maintain. Does this sound too late for Jessie? Or would it make sense to add release candidates to Jessie and stabilise it all together?

Cheers,
Dave